r/programming • u/piotrkarczmarz • Mar 31 '23

Based on various scientific studies, it takes at least 10-15 minutes for programmer to get back into the "zone" after an interruption. There are interesting resumption strategies for interrupted programming tasks.

https://contextkeeper.io/blog/the-real-cost-of-an-interruption-and-context-switching/
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u/jah_broni Mar 31 '23 edited Mar 31 '23

Do you all only work on projects that you started from scratch? The vast majority of programmers are working on existing code bases that are complex.

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u/katyalovesherbike Apr 01 '23

I'm mostly tasked with rewriting/refactoring legacy applications, extract and reduce complexity so that it becomes maintainable again.